The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-10-14
THE COUNTY FAIR.
Everything Lovely Except the
Weather



everything else in its favor. The list OF
entries footed up to zoos. and the RECEIPTS
to $1,000. The exhibits in all Departments
save Floral hall surpassed anything seen
in years The two balloon ascensions by
Prof. Hogan were perfect successes. The
races were good--in a word we had a first
class fair. ata
Our space is too limited TO attempt to
say much of the live stock exhibit; moth.
ing like it in numbers and quality was ever
before seen at fair in Shiawassee county.
The list of premiums Ito be published next
week. will show who were the successful
ones.
The poultry department, alike with the
others, was we'll filed with good speci-
mems.
FRUITS, VEGETABLES, GRAINS, ETC. o.
The fruit department of the fair exceed
cd any former display in the county. and
was equal to any county exhibit We have
ever seen, and too much credit cannot be
awarded the enterprising exhibitors. t
Ofapples, and the specimens were all
good, s. s. Jones exhibited 20 plates; G.
L. Comstock, 1; r. Steel, 16; Mrs III. r.
Hoff, 5; John Harshbarger, 1 G.. Hubbard,
80; Sherman Matteson, 2; III. d. Norris,
III. F. Bilhimer, 81 w. d. Underwood.
A; collection of 5 plates no name; John E.
Figg, 1; Geo. Smith, IS; E. d. Fuller, H.;
w. M. Giles, s.; G. Richardson, z; F. M.
Waldron, o.; Frank Weidman, 8; w. H.
Gitchell, S; Henry Welfare, o; Perry
Brown, 10, Clark Whclan, 8; Mrs. T. A.
whitesell, 2; Martin Rourke, A.; @. Free
man, II; p. c. Smith, 8; w. NJ. Caldwell.
10; j. II. Gillett, q; c. H. Thomas, 2, and
e. G. Warner. 10, aud we doubt not there
were others, but the above were all the
names of exhibitors that We could find on
the cards. = h'@
The grapes were wonderfully fine and
the exhibit very large. We noted: A col
lection of al varieties by N. B. Aiken;
and II other plates; Charles Richardson, a
collection of 25 varieties and 10 plates;
Walter Smalley, Mrs. N. d. Neff. N. b.
Aiken and John Parsons each had fine
specimens, and the Romeo nursery 10
specimens, among which there were some
fine specimens of the new white, the Mag
ra, that were beautiful to look at and de-
licious to taste s.a ..a.i,st an1
OF pears there. were few nice speci-
mems, but our notes do not name the ex-
hibitors, except rs to SIX by the Romeo
nursery. There were also two or three
fine plates of plums that attracted much
attention.
In the canned department there were
unusually fine specimens Of amber cane
syrup exhibited by s. s. Jones and j. H.
Campbell. and some less than thousand
cans of the various varieties of canned
fruits, exhibited by SO many different per.
sons that our time did not permit us to
note the names of the exhibitors. But the
display was an exceedingly .creditable one,
and commanded the admiration of all Wis
itors Also two jars of maple syrup to
VIM. Hughes and w. d. Underwood
that were worthy of special notice.
In the bread department there were
about 20 entries, making good display,
and including all the different kinds.
That the dairy interest in this county is
a large one was apparent from the,31 ex-
hibitors Of butter, all Of which looked good
enough to grace any table. And the Cor
unna cheese factory exhibited some as
good cheese as is made anywhere, the mer
Its OF which The visitors attested to by eat
ing up the whole Of one that weighed some
so pounds. 1ss. .s
OF vegetables and grains there was a
very large exhibit among which we note
collections by F. Albock and John Elton
of Vernon and N. b. Aiken of Caledonia.
There were 81 entries of Irish potatos, 8
of sweet potatoes, 6 of pumpkins, 81 of
beets, IA of turnips, Z of musk MELONS,
many of parsnips, onions and other
varieties of garden Sauce" Forty-eight
specimens of corn, which proved that the
COTu CIOp VI ulhWhSoCO CO1nhy udd uOt
been failure in consequence Of the long
continued drouth; Is Of oats, Is of wheat,
with barley, beans, clover and timothy
seeds, etc., in large varieties.
There were some fine exhibits of Shia
wassee grown woods by C.iS. Bingham,
A. Parmenter, l.. w. and o. Barnes and
Perry Brown. 'a'+1'" " =
Afine display Of house plants by Henry
Welfare who had 50 varieties, and numer
Gus other exhibitors and some as fine dis
plays Of garden flowers as one could wisl
to see, and cactus tree that was as fine
plant as one often sees exhibited, by Mrs
s. A. Judd The boquets were exhibited
by Mrs. f. A. Gould, Mrs. J. J. Polmater
Abbie Conant, Mrs. John Parsons ant
others. M
All in all we think that the display il
the fruit and vegetable hall would be hare
TO beat by the productions of any othel
n<,,,nf,, ~, thu efofo md their ayhihifior